MAT-49

Factions	Weapon	Icon	Classes	Ammo
					VC	MAT-49		Medic Engineer Radioman	35 / 105

Damage Base	Headshot ×	Chest ×	Stomach ×	Leg ×	Arm ×	Reload Speed
						Partial	Empty
37	×2.4 = 88.8	×1.3 = 48.1	×1.2 = 44.4	×0.8 = 29.6	×0.75 = 27.75	2.5 Seconds	3.33 Seconds

Designation	Weapon Type	Fire Modes	Fire Rate	Bullet Spread °	Range Modifier	Muzzle Velocity	Projectile weight	Weight
				MAT-49	SMG	Auto	600 RPM	7.0° & 1.85° ADS	0.93	469 m/s	5.5 g (84.87 gr)	3.5 kg (7.72 lbs)

Full name	Caliber	Place of Origin	Date	Armory	Barrel Length	Total Length	Weapon Script Name
								Pistolet-Mitrailleur de 9 mm modèle 1949	7.62x25	France	1949	Manufacture Nationale d'Armes de Tulle	9.1 in (230 mm)	28 in (720 mm)	weapon_mat49

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A french SMG designed and produced for soldiers and policemen. Captured after the French left they became a VC Staple.

HISTORY

In 1949, the French MAT factory began producing the MAT-49 9 mm submachine gun using machine stamping for economical mass production. This was urgently needed by the French Army, French Foreign Legion, and airborne and colonial forces for a compact weapon. Production continued at Tulle until the mid-1960s, then moved to the Manufacture d'armes de Saint-Étienne (MAS) until 1973. The MAT-49 was gradually phased out after the FAMAS 5.56 mm NATO assault rifle was adopted in 1979. The MAT-49 saw extensive combat during the First Indochina War, Algerian War, and the 1956 Suez Crisis, and was favored by airborne and mechanized troops for its simplicity, ruggedness, firepower, and compactness.

After French forces left Indochina, the People's Army of Vietnam and Viet Minh converted many captured MAT-49s to the Soviet 7.62 mm Tokarev pistol cartridge, then available in large quantities from the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China. These converted versions could be distinguished by a longer barrel and a higher rate of fire at 900 rpm.

North Vietnam covertly provided MAT-49s to anti-French occupation groups during the Algerian War after the French left Indochina.
SOURCE

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  Vietnamese silenced MAT-49 made from captured M3 suppressor

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  A soldier of the National Liberation Front (N.L.F), armed with a French MAT-49 sub-machine gun.

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  A Vietnamese farmer with a rusted MAT 49 which he found on a rice field in Dien Bien Phu, northern Vietnam, 7 May 2020. (Photo by Thomas Goisque)

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